Banquet guests at the dedication of the 60-inch telescope, Palomar Observatory. The guests are seated in the 200-inch telescope dome building. Guests (clockwise from left): (unidentified), Mrs. & Bruce Rule, Willis Shapley, Edward Ackerman, George Ellery Hale, (unidentified), and (unidentified). The male guests are wearing suits; the women are wearing dresses. The woman in the foreground, with her back to the camera, has a fur garment draped over her chair. The guests are seated at round tables. Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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